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Committee adopts amendments and forwards multiple bills, resolutions to full council
Summary
At a Committee of the Whole meeting, council members adopted amendments to five bills and voted to report a total of 13 bills and resolutions with favorable recommendations and suspension of rules to permit consideration at the next full council session.
Philadelphia City Council’s Committee of the Whole adopted amendments to multiple bills and voted to report a package of bills and resolutions to the full council with favorable recommendations and a suspension of council rules to allow consideration at the next council meeting.
The actions were procedural: Council member Thomas offered amendments to several bills, each amendment was seconded and approved by voice vote, and the committee then voted to report groups of bills and resolutions to the full council with a recommendation and a suspension of the rules.
The committee adopted amendments to bill numbers 250196, 250197, 250198, 250200 and 250212. Council member Thomas moved each amendment and a council member identified in the record as Jamie Gauthier seconded each motion. Each amendment was approved by voice vote; the chair recorded “the ayes have it.”
After the individual amendments, Thomas moved that bills 250196, 250197, 250198, 250200 and 250212, each as amended, be reported from the committee with a favorable recommendation and that the rules of council be suspended to permit consideration of these bills at the next council session. That motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
The committee also moved to report with a favorable recommendation, and to suspend the rules to permit consideration at the next council session, the following resolutions and bills: 250539, 250195, 250199, 250201, 250202, 250210, 250211 and 250214. That motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
Votes at a glance: - Amendment adopted to Bill 250196 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: amendment adopted (voice vote, “ayes have it”). - Amendment adopted to Bill 250197 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: amendment adopted (voice vote). - Amendment adopted to Bill 250198 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: amendment adopted (voice vote). - Amendment adopted to Bill 250200 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: amendment adopted (voice vote). - Amendment adopted to Bill 250212 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: amendment adopted (voice vote). - Committee reported Bills 250196, 250197, 250198, 250200 and 250212, each as amended, with a favorable recommendation and moved to suspend the rules to permit consideration at the next council session — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: motion approved (voice vote). - Committee reported with favorable recommendation and moved to suspend the rules for Resolutions/Bills 250539, 250195, 250199, 250201, 250202, 250210, 250211 and 250214 — mover: Council member Thomas; second: Council member Jamie Gauthier; outcome: motion approved (voice vote).
The meeting record shows procedural motions, seconds and voice votes only; no substantive debate or roll-call tallies were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The chair closed the Committee of the Whole’s business and indicated the council was returning to session to consider tax bills.
